BBVA is one of the first banks to start to commercialise their investment in Open Banking APIs for PSD2. It is making eight of their own APIs commercially available for the first time ahead of the start of PSD2 in their launch of the BBVA API Market, see and below:

Payments&Cards Mobile report, “With the eight APIs now available, BBVA says companies, start-ups and developers will be able to build new products and services by accessing and integrating customers’ banking data – with their permission – into their applications.”

BBVA are already developing other APIs for consumers and corporates in the PSD2 area.

Other API development

API development is happening world-wide:

Citi already using their own APIs in electronic banking solutions, as are many other banks

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